Grace Helbig Quotes

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

My technique is different, and I am more spontaneous. I don't like rehearsing.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

I've never been good at improvising.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

The way I play, I like to be free.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.